{"id":221,"date":"2010-10-02T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:56:49","slug":"structuring-environment-student-and-educator-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Structuring Environment &#8211; Student and Educator Views&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>posted by Robert Price<\/em><br><em>Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<\/em><br><em>September 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Structuring the Environment &#8211; the physical space; physical things; location of people (students and educator) are best considered and implemented with intentionality. With the Reggio Emilia approach the environment is considered the &#8216;third teacher&#8217;. If we are to have transformational design change in education, all aspects should be considered with intentionality.<\/p>\n<p>The three video clips below include examples and reflections by educators and students. How do the educators and students reflections compare with one another?<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student Location - Structuring Environment\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t3xgvZTmjY0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"structuring envir student reflect\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEuffLf83v8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"structuring environment students bob\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0GOHFMAA_1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>posted by Robert PriceAddis Ababa, EthiopiaSeptember 2010 Structuring the Environment &#8211; the physical space; physical things; location of people (students and educator) are best considered and implemented with intentionality. With the Reggio Emilia approach the environment is considered the &#8216;third teacher&#8217;. If we are to have transformational design change in education, all aspects should be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=221\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Structuring Environment &#8211; Student and Educator Views&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","gallery-content-unit","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oKjh-3z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1532,"url":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1532","url_meta":{"origin":221,"position":0},"title":"Structuring Environment &#8211; A Thinking Environment with Intentionality","author":"admin","date":"November 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Structuring Thinking Environments Thinking Environments, a professional development model, is an awareness,understanding and a process focused upon the design, interface and impact with the environment of the physical learning space. 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